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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: Amiga 3000UX Color X
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1991 06:17:44 GMT

In article <8834@gollum.twg.com> david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes:
>
>A C= marketing feller (western area) demonstrated it running
>on Unix and X11R<something> at the latest FAUG meeting.  The
>demonstration was less than satisfactory because 1) the display
>died 10 minutes into it, and 2) the only things he did was not
>at all fast.  He loaded in a picture into the screen's background
>but that took ~ 2 minutes (veeery sloooow).  Then he ran that
>normal X demo which draws a bunch of lines, pauses, clears the
>window, and loops.  Because of that pause it was hard to get
>an idea of the speed ...
>
	If the display had the same problem as the demo I saw,
the background image was a gif file that had to be converted to a
bitmap before being copied onto the display.
	Also, the lines demo I saw didn't pause/clear.

	-- Ethan

Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb
A: None. It's a hardware problem.